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We had a short stay in Antigua and moved on after three nights. Our Airbnb was in a local town and there wasn’t a ton to do there. We did venture out one day, unknowingly on Antigua’s Independence Day. It was unusually quiet and we couldn’t find any buses anywhere. We asked a local and they informed us everything was pretty much closed since it was a holiday, so we walked all the way to St Johns, which was a ghost town. There was nobody around and nothing was open. Only a stray dog followed us around the completely empty streets. A cruise ship was there but people hadn’t come off yet. We managed to find a taxi and asked him to take us to Runaway beach, a quiet stretch of sand south of the popular resort area. The beach and water were pristine, beautiful turquoise waters and again, no people around! The kids played in the sand and we then walked all the way up the beach. It was quite a bit of walking that day, close to 10km! We took a cab back to our small house and then relaxed. The rest of the days we just walked around the neighbourhood and sat on our front porch listening to the kids next door play their recorder all day long followed by some oldies music at night. The stat holiday did make it a bit of a challenge to find food, but luckily we did have some groceries stocked. It was still a sad dinner of mostly hash-browns with ketchup. While it was a short visit, we are glad to have gotten out to one of the beaches. They are truly beautiful here!
We left for the airport on time and finally found the nicest lounge in the Caribbean so far! They brought some good appetizers and we had plenty of drinks. There was even an outdoor patio overlooking the runway. Our flight over to St Kitts took a total of 17 minutes and the pilots of the British Airways 777tried slamming the brakes with plenty of reverse thrust in order to make it to the terminal exit which seems to be in a very poor spot near the beginning of the runway, clearly designed for smaller aircraft. The pilots did inform us of the attempt to avoid a lengthy taxiing, but they ultimately didn’t make it so we zoomed past the terminal, turned around at the end, zoomed right back up to the start of the runway and then turned once more and finally crawled off the runway and to the taxi area which also was inconveniently located way too far from the terminal. The whole ordeal took almost as long as the flight over. Kilian had to pee the entire time of course since he crushed juice at the lounge, so I ran him to the planes bathroom as soon as we stopped, and in an attempt to be super fast dropped my sunglasses in the toilet bowl. I briefly thought of just flushing the scratched up sunnies down the toilet, but then managed to save them after all. Once off the plane we actually made up the stroller and went for a good walk to the terminal. We could tell some off the poor souls that had just spent over 10 hours on the plane coming in from London plus having to wait in Antigua for the rest of us to join, were annoyed by the stroll back. Our place in St Kitts is in Frigate Bay and was only a few minutes away. By the time we arrived, we had enough time to grab some pizza boys dinner and a few things from the store. Tomorrow we shall explore the area! Comments are closed.
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